Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

THE HISTORY
OF
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
FROM THE "HISTORY OF THE JEWS"
BY
JOSEPH BEN-GORION.'
THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREEK, THE SON
OF PHILIP, AND OF HIS CONFLICTS WITH DARIUS,
AND OF HIS CONVERSATION WITH THE JEWS,
AND OF OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED
WITH HIS HISTORY.
The writer of this history saith:— Philip, thephmpthe
father of Alexander, was the mightiest of the ^^^ °°'
kings of the Greeks, and he conquered all the
nations who lived round about him, and they all
were in subjection unto him; and the years of
^ Pseudo-JosephuSj or Joseph ben-Gorionj flourished in
the ninth or tenth century of our era; he is famous as the
author of the "History of the Jews", which he wrote in
six books. The references given below are to the edition
of the Hebrew text printed by Breithaupt in the year 1710
(I^IIJ )3 ]1D^DV sive jFosephus Hebraicus, videlicet; Rerum me-
morabilium in populo Jiidaico tarn pads, quam belli tempore
gestarum inprimis de excidio Hierosolymitano, Gothae et Lipsiae,
MDCCX).
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